Dum Dum

Dum Dum is a municipal town that is part of Greater Kolkata area. It is home to the city's only international airport. Dum Dum is also an important food and leisure hub in West Bengal, having a lot of international fast-food chains and shopping malls.
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  • Type: Town with 123,000 residents
  • Description: City in West Bengal, India
  • Also known as: “Dam Dam” and “Dum Dum Cantonment”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport and Jai Hind metro station.

Aerodrome
Photo: Das kr., CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an serving the city of and the Kolkata metropolitan area, the capital metropolis of the Indian state of .

Metro station
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Jai Hind is an underground metro station of Yellow Line of Kolkata Metro in Dum Dum, , , India. It is the largest underground metro station in India serving the city of 's main airport, the .

Railway station
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is a Kolkata Suburban Railway station in . It serves and Nimta areas in North Dumdum, , . It lies between the and .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include North Dum Dum and Birati.

Town
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or Uttar Dum Dum is a city and a municipality of in the state of . It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority.

Suburb
is a neighbourhood in North Dumdum of in the state of . It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority.

Dum Dum

Latitude
22.65206° or 22° 39′ 7″ north
Longitude
88.43604° or 88° 26′ 10″ east
Population
123,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
Open location code
7MJCMC2P+RC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9907261163
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1272243
Wiki­data ID
Q649955
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Dum Dum” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “دمدم”
  • Asturian: “Dum Dum”
  • Bengali: “দমদম ক্যান্টনমেন্ট”
  • Bengali: “দমদম”
  • Bhojpuri: “दमदम”
  • Bishnupriya: “দমদম”
  • Cebuano: “Dam Dam”
  • Chinese: “Dum Dum”
  • Chinese: “杜姆杜姆”
  • Danish: “Dum Dum”
  • Dutch: “Dam Dam”
  • Dutch: “Dum Dum”
  • Esperanto: “Dum Dum”
  • Finnish: “Dum Dum (Intia)”
  • Finnish: “Dum Dum”
  • French: “Dum Dum”
  • German: “Dum Dum”
  • Hindi: “दम दम”
  • Hindi: “दमदम”
  • Irish: “Dum Dum”
  • Italian: “Dumdum”
  • Japanese: “ダムダム”
  • Kannada: “ಡಮ್ ಡಮ್”
  • Kashmiri: “ڈم ڈم”
  • Korean: “덤덤”
  • Ladin: “Dum Dum”
  • Malay: “Dumdum”
  • Marathi: “डमडम”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dum Dum”
  • Newari: “दम्दम्”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dum Dum”
  • Norwegian: “Dum Dum”
  • Polish: “Dum Dum”
  • Portuguese: “Dum Dum”
  • Russian: “Дум-Дум (Индия)”
  • Russian: “Дум-Дум”
  • Spanish: “Dum Dum”
  • Swedish: “Dam Dam”
  • Swedish: “Dum Dum”
  • Tamil: “டம் டம்”
  • Urdu: “ڈم ڈم”
  • Venetian: “Dumdum”
  • Vietnamese: “Dumdum”
  • “दमदम”

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